Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	die_v	resurrection_n	4,046	5	8.5298	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61865	Conscience the best friend upon earth: or, The happy effects of keeping a good conscience Very useful for this age. By Henry Stubbes, Minister of the Gospel.	Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing S6029C; ESTC R222100	33,441	135

Righteousness The World the Flesh and the Devil pull to take it away Hold we our Resolution not to let it go Should I let it go saith Job my Heart would reproach me would upbraid me my Conscien●e would accuse me of wrong done to my self which is worse then doing wrong to others It is bad to wrong others much worse to wrong our selves therefore he is resolved My Heart shall not reproach me no not so long as I live In which words you have Job's Holy resolution My Heart shall not reproach me My Heart that is my Conscience for so Heart is to be understood If ou heart condemn us Go is greater then our heart And if our heart condemn us not c. that is our Conscience So that by Heart you must here understand Conscience Conscience Is there any such thing in the World Sure one would think that Conscience had been dead long ago and that there was no Conscience now alive in the World But Sirs it will have a Resurrection assure your selves for it is of an Immortal Nature and though it may seem 〈◊〉 die it will have a real Resurrection Sleep is the image of Death and Conscience may for awhile be asleep but as sure as ever thou didst awake when thou wast asleep Conscience will awake ere long and when it shall awake it will make you look about My Conscience shall not reproach me shall not upbraid shall not accuse me of any wrong done to mysel● nor of any omission of what is my Duty nor of any commission of what is Transgression it shall not accuse me either for omitting what God hath commanded and God hath commanded me to preserve my own Integrity and to seek my own peace and quiet or accuse me for committing what God hath forbidden God hath forbidden me the wronging of my self and Conscience shall not accuse me for doing what God hath forbidden so long as I live Hitherto his Conscience accused him not O Excellent Job A man more righteous then his Neighbour Indeed he was one that had the Commendation of God himself no wonder he doth stand up in his own justification being a person that had Gods so great commendation Job 1. 1. There was a man in the land of Vz whose name was Job and that man was perfect and upright one that feared God and eschewed evil And a further Commendation the Lord gave him ver 8 Hast thou not considered my serva Job that there is none like him in the earth c. No wonder that he stands upon his own justification Hither to I have so lived that my Conscience cannot accuse me and he was resolved so to live I will have a care whatever I suffer to have Conscience on my side I will have Conscience to be my Friend I will not do any thing that shall occasion Conscience to be my Foe for I were better to have all the World yea if there were ten thousand Worlds it were better for me to have them all to be my mortal enemies than to have Conscience to be mine enemy Now it will be needful to consider what Conscience is that is so great a Friend or Foe it will be the best Friend or the worst Enemy according as your carriage towards God and Man shall be I shall shew 1. What Conscience is 2. About what it is imployed 〈…〉 is implo And then when I have so done I shall tell you and prove it that it should be your greatest care so to live that Conscience may not reproach you whilest you live and then give you reasons of it and then Apply it 1. General What Conscience is Briefly Conscience is a mans Judgment of himself i.e. Of his Estate and Actions this is Conscience Or thus if you will Conscience is a Power of the Soul for the Soul is endowed with Noble Powers and Faculties Vnderstanding Conscience Memory Will and Affections and Conscience is not the least of them I say Conscience is a Power of the Soul taking notice and bearing witness of all a mans Thoughts Words and Actions and as it finds them either to agree or not agree with the Rule it accuses or excuses absolves or condemns comforts or torments This is Conscience Do you think there is any such Inhabitant in you It may be some have taken no notice of any such Inhabitant in the House of their Soul whether there be any such Power of the Soul or no. I say it again Conscience is a Power of the Soul taking notice and bearing witness it takes notice that it may bear witness of all a mans Thoughts Words and Actions and as it finds his Thoughts Words or Actions to be either agreeing or not agreeing with the Rule so it doth excuse or accuse absolve or condemn comfort or torment This is Conscience 1. It is a Power of the Soul it is called Heart 1 John 3. 20. For if our heart coudemn us c. and Eccles. 7. 22. For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth c. It is called likewise the Spirit of a man Prov. 18. 14. The Spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities but a wounded Spirit who can bear 2. Conscience is a Power of the Soul taking notice it is a most Curious Observer Conscience is very quick sighted It is continually prying though we do not observe and take notice of it yet so it is What is said of God Psalm 139. 3 4. is true of his Deputy Who is that It is Conscience Conscience is no mean thing it is Gods Deputy and what is said of God in that place is true of Conscience Thou compassest my path and my lying down and thou art acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my mouth but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Thou hast beset me behind and before So that a man cannot stir but God seeth and Conscience seeth and knoweth and taketh notice of it and one would wonder how Conscience will revive what was done seven years and three times seven years ago Conscienc● will whisper in your ear this was your heart and this was in your tongue and this was in your hands this was thought by you that was spoken by you and that was done by you that which we had utterly forgotten How fresh many years after doth Conscience bring it to mind Conscience took notice of it and did well observe it Thus Coscience is a Power of the Soul taking notice 3. And bearing witness it taketh notice that it may bear witness if it should not take notice it could not bear witness Can a man bear witness that which he never knew which he never saw nor heard Rom. 2. 14. The Apostle speaking of the Gentiles saith Having not the Law they do by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts their Conscience also ●●eiring witness It is an old